Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi receive the 2025 International Booker Prize for Heart Lamp.

Who is Banu Mushtaq, Indian winner of the Booker Prize?

Mushtaq has championed Kannada literature and shares prize with translator Deepa Bhasthi

Indian author wins International Booker for Heart Lamp

Banu Mushtaq will share the $67,000 prize with her translator Deepa Bhasthi

Banu Mushtaq, author of 'Heart Lamp' holds the trophy after winning the International Booker Prize, in London

'Harry Potter' cover art sells for $1.9m at auction

More than 500 million copies of the books have been sold in 80 languages

An art handler holds Thomas Taylor’s original cover art for J.K. Rowling's “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” at Sotheby’s in New York.

Watch: Original 'Harry Potter' cover art up for auction

The first time the illustration was offered at auction at Sotheby's in London in 2001

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Salman Rushdie dismisses AI threat to original writers

Rushdie said the threat could be particularly acute for film and TV writers

Salman Rushdie tested ChatGPT, finding the results to be 'a bunch of nonsense.'

Japan anime fans in shock after high-profile deaths

Creator of the 'Dragon Ball mega-franchise, Akira Toriyama, died this week

The nation paid tribute to anime legend, "Dragon Ball" creator Akira Toriyama, who died aged 68.

Now, there’s even a comic book on Taylor Swift

The 22-page glossy charts Swift’s rise to stardom and highlights her career achievements

Taylor Swift's comic book.

Kareena Kapoor talks pregnancy, weight gain, and more

The actress was in the UAE this weekend to promote her new book on motherhood and pregancy

Kareena Kapoor Khan at the Sharjah International Book Fair

Indian actress Neena Gupta talks love and scandals

What prompted her to write her own life story, we ask the actress ahead of Sharjah visit

Watch: Bollywood actress Neena Gupta talks love, scandals, and single parenting in her book

Eight things we learned from Walter Isaacson's Musk bio

Here are some of the questions about the billionaire Tesla CEO that the book answers

SpaceX, Twitter and electric car maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

John Grisham, top US authors sue OpenAI over copyrights

Class-action lawsuit filed by Authors Guild joins others against generative AI providers

Murakami sizes a walled city and shadows

In ‘The City and Its Uncertain Walls’, the novelist gives life to one of his earlier works

In this photo released by Shinchosha, Haruki Murakami speaks on March 17, 2023 at Shinchosha in Tokyo.

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